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When teaching children to read do you give them Encyclopedia Britannica? Of course not.



I'd hope developers learning Git are a little more capable than literal children.


I wasn't saying otherwise. It's an analogy. In case you struggle with those, in non-analogy form it would be "Do you start teaching a new concept using its most advanced incarnation?" No, you start from the basics.




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